Training The Street (TTS), a leading corporate training provider for Wall Street firms and top business schools, today announced its appointment of Bob Wieczorek as head of its asset management and capital markets practice. Utilizing his experience in capital markets, asset management, banking and financial training, Mr. Wieczorek will be tasked with expanding TTS’s training […]

By Akane Otani Want to work on Wall Street? Suit up, turn your spell check on, and leave your risk-taking, self-starter attitude home. When finance industry professionals that interview new MBAs were asked to identify skills they deemed most important in applicants, 75 percent picked communication skills, according to a Bloomberg Businessweek survey of 1,320 recruiters conducted as part of our 2014 MBA […]

Training The Street (TTS), a leading corporate training provider for Wall Street firms and top business schools, today announced its appointment of Marc Aqui as Principal and Head of Instructor Development. Mr. Aqui will now be an integral member of the TTS leadership team and responsible for managing TTS’s key client relationships. Mr. Aqui has […]

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-11-17/-100-billion-deal-day-evokes-1998-s-exxon-mobil-real-m-a.html By Brooke Sutherland and Tara Lachapelle The last time two mergers this huge were announced on the same day, Exxon was targeting Mobil and Bill Clinton was still in the White House. Halliburton Co. (HAL) and Actavis Plc this morning announced a combined $100 billion in takeovers. It’s rare to see two deals of $20 billion or […]

http://www.thestreet.com/story/12916790/2/canadian-pacific-ebay-family-dollar-among-opportunities-created-by-selloff.html By Antoine Gara NEW YORK (TheStreet) — The recent tumble in equity, commodity and currency markets has created opportunities to buy stocks in companies that got caught up in the broad selloff. Firms facing multiple takeover offers have lost their deal premiums, share price gains from the emergence of activist investors have been washed […]

Discussing how to navigate of going public under volatile market conditions, with Scott Rostan, Training The Street, and Kathleen Smith, Renaissance Capital.  https://www.cnbc.com/video/2014/10/10/volatile-market-stifles-ipos.html

http://blogs.wsj.com/moneybeat/2014/09/01/wall-street-woos-young-workers-as-business-picks-up By Lindsay Gellman, Sara Jerving and Daniel Huang Wall Street firms are hiring more junior bankers and giving more interns full-time jobs this year. Bank of America Corp. hired about 40% more full-time analysts and associates this year than last, according to a person familiar with the bank’s hiring practices. J.P. Morgan Chase & […]

By Gillian Tan and Liz Hoffman http://online.wsj.com/articles/bankers-lament-loss-of-code-names-for-deals-1409279749  Bankers Enjoy Coining Monikers to Keep Mergers Quiet; Software Threatens the Fun “Project Swift” sounds like the name of a military invasion or an Olympic marathoner’s training plan. But it is actually the code name for a corporate buyout, inspired by a private-equity associate’s fondness for singer Taylor […]

http://nypost.com/2014/08/20/goldman-sachs-plans-20-pay-hike-for-junior-bankers/ By Kevin Dugan First they get a day off. Next they get a raise. Goldman Sachs’ junior bankers — who are known to log grueling 100-hour work weeks — are looking at a pay hike of more than 20 percent next year, two people familiar with the bank’s plans told The Post. That would […]

A new survey of MBA students and graduates found that their top employment choice is not bulge bracket banks but consulting firms. Training The Street (TTS) conducted its fifth annual survey of MBA students. The firm says consulting firms recruit more aggressively than the large banks. The survey also found MBA students are very optimistic […]